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1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it. 2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist. 3-Teachers need to stop saying, "Hand it in," and start saying "Publish It." Alan November 4-We have moved from "know what" learning to "know where" learning. 5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres. 6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way. 7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres 8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain. 9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living. 10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.

7.15.09 1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it. 2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist. 3-Teachers need to stop saying, "Hand it in," and start saying "Publish It." Alan November 4-We have moved from "know what" learning to "know where" learning. 5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres. 6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way. 7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres 8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain. 9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living. 10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.

In the wake of Sunday's [July 5, 2009] deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China's central government took all the usual steps to enshrine its version of events as received wisdom: it crippled Internet service, blocked Twitter's micro-blogs, purged search engines of unapproved references to the violence, saturated the Chinese media with the state-sanctioned story.

*In the wake of Sunday's [July 5, 2009] deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China's central government took all the usual steps to enshrine its version of events as received wisdom: it crippled Internet service, blocked Twitter's micro-blogs, purged search engines of unapproved references to the violence, saturated the Chinese media with the state-sanctioned story. *"They're getting more sophisticated. They learn from past mistakes...."

7.20.09 *In the wake of Sunday's [July 5, 2009] deadly riots in its western region of Xinjiang, China's central government took all the usual steps to enshrine its version of events as received wisdom: it crippled Internet service, blocked Twitter's micro-blogs, purged search engines of unapproved references to the violence, saturated the Chinese media with the state-sanctioned story. *"They're getting more sophisticated. They learn from past mistakes...." *"For Twitter or the Internet, when they see too many factors they cannot completely control, they shut down and block. But for foreign journalists, they feel that as long as they can keep those people under control, it may serve better the government's purpose."

In other words, one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191

*One of the reasons that Free is often so hard to grasp is that it is not a thing.... 34 *the social bonds ... tend to fray when the size of a group exceeds 150 (termed the Dunbar Number) 40 *our feelings about "free" are relative.... 56 *In the end it always seemed to be about a story--people like to see the beginning, middle, end, and plot of something.... 69 *in a digital marketplace, Free is almost always a choice. 72 *This "triple play" of faster, better, cheaper technologies--processing, storage, and bandwidth--all come together online, which is why today you can have free services like YouTube.... 78 *The point: Ideas are the ultimate abundance commodity, which propagate at zero maginal cost. Once created, ideas want to spread far and wide, enriching everything they touch. 83 *If the unitary cost of technology...is halving every eighteen months, when does it come close enough to zero to...round down to nothing? 89 *All information should be free. 96 *On the one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand, information wants to be free.... 96 *This is Googleplex, the headquarters of the biggest company in history built on giving things away. 119 *each data factory Google builds can do twice as much for the same price as the one it built about a year and a half earlier. As a result, every eighteen months the cost to Google of providing you with your Gmail inbox falls by about half. 121-22 CEO Eric Schmidt - Google's "max strategy" 'Take whatever it is you are doing and do it to the max in terms of distribution...since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well put things everywhere.' 123 *... one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191

FYI: I downloaded the audiobook of this title free from Audible.com. *One of the reasons that Free is often so hard to grasp is that it is not a thing.... 34 *the social bonds ... tend to fray when the size of a group exceeds 150 (termed the Dunbar Number) 40 *our feelings about "free" are relative.... 56 *In the end it always seemed to be about a story--people like to see the beginning, middle, end, and plot of something.... 69 *in a digital marketplace, Free is almost always a choice. 72 *This "triple play" of faster, better, cheaper technologies--processing, storage, and bandwidth--all come together online, which is why today you can have free services like YouTube.... 78 *The point: Ideas are the ultimate abundance commodity, which propagate at zero maginal cost. Once created, ideas want to spread far and wide, enriching everything they touch. 83 *If the unitary cost of technology...is halving every eighteen months, when does it come close enough to zero to...round down to nothing? 89 *All information should be free. 96 *On the one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand, information wants to be free.... 96 *This is Googleplex, the headquarters of the biggest company in history built on giving things away. 119 *each data factory Google builds can do twice as much for the same price as the one it built about a year and a half earlier. As a result, every eighteen months the cost to Google of providing you with your Gmail inbox falls by about half. 121-22 CEO Eric Schmidt - Google's "max strategy" 'Take whatever it is you are doing and do it to the max in terms of distribution...since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well put things everywhere.' 123 *... one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

What we've decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.